He likes the Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher the best, but the Bloodbathed is also very awesome.

Well, those are on my list as well… and have long been ignored as being functionally impossible for me to get. Guild groups have always been halfway or more through the achievements, or not announced until the last minute and thus impossible to plan for and be around at the start.

Completing the needed achievements, the long list of quite difficult achievements requiring a large group, has been one of those wistful things a non-ICC raider just has to put aside, right?

Or is it?

It’s only lately occurred to me that, with the advent of Battletags, cross-server raid groups and LFR geared players, it might just be possible to put together a group of ten people who would all like to form a regular group, starting with zero achievements, and work their way through to getting the achievement and the mount before Mists of Pandaria and the account-wide mounts go into effect.

So, I’m putting it out there.

I would like to put together such a group. A group of ten people who want to start and complete the Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10 Man) by clearing Icecrown Citadel in 10 man, both normal and heroic, and all of the achievements within.

For those who are seriously interested, I’d think one night a week, and I’d give each person my Battletag so we could gather together the clans for the runs.

I have one big disadvantage in organizing this kind of thing. I never did any of the damn battles, not really, not even on normal. The first few bosses, sure, but nothing much past that.

So I’d need at least one person along who knows what to do, who can direct us.

Fortunately, the Wowhead entry comments are full of great suggestions on how to work as a team to accomplish the achievements, but it’s not as helpful when you never saw the fight before to interpret exactly what they’re saying.

So…

Are you interested? I mean, really interested? Would you want to be a part?

If the answer is yes, reply in the comments, and make sure the email address you use to register your comment (that only I see, never fear) is accurate so I can get in touch with you. If you wanted to mention which roles in the group you’d be good with playing as, all to the better.

Myself, I’d be willing to tank, heal or DPS, I don’t really care which character I’d go as. And Alex only has Death Knight DPS as an option, but as he’s doing some pretty good DPS now and is careful on getting out of the bad/moving when needed, he won’t even be getting carried!

If there was enough serious interest to field a 25 person team, I’d be willing to go for that, too, but it’s the middle of summer, and interest in WoW is waning for a lot of folks. I’m thinking getting a ten person group together would be more realistic, but what the heck do I know? Maybe I can’t even find five other people who’d want to go!

But I’m throwing it out there. I’d love to do it, and maybe I’m optimistic as hell, but I think it shouldn’t take more than three or four weeks to give it a damn good shot.

If we get enough folks to do it, I could see it being around 6 PM start Central time, for maybe two hours a pop, one night a week. And I’d really want to start and keep going with the same group who all need the mount and achievement, so everyone who takes part gets it.

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There are several places where you can find people both willing to help and already doing these types of things. Twitterlandraiding.com is one such place. Very helpful and mature players. Usually patient too, (everyone has bad nights from time to time).

We have been trying to do 25man H ICC every Saturday but have been having attendance problems. 10 man is fairly easy (even for achievements or heroics) with 6-8 85s.

An even better idea would be to contact Dragonsaber on the Gilneas realm. He does an ICC ach run every Friday and Saturday nights. He’s in a guild called “Nice” if you can’t find him (his name is spelled with a few odd letters). Good luck!

I would be interested. I have soloed ICC 10-man first boss and gotten small group of people to do like up to the loot ship. I never ran ICC either. I can bring either a DK Tank, a Disc Healer, or an Arcane Mage. Of those I think the mage is the best geared character from running LFG’s. The Tank has decent gear mostly crafted high level stuff. The healer is the worst geared but throws a mean bubble. I can give you Armory links to them all if you want. Just drop me and email or a comment on my site..

I think if running all by yourself, the group run by Dragonsaber that Tazor mentioned would be by far the best choice. But, as I’m trying to get something together that my family can all take part in, it’s going to be more difficult.

Like Zwingli, I think the timing is off for me, though I would absolutely adore the chance to get in on this group you’re talking about forming. I tend to not even have a chance to jump online much before 9:30 Eastern, though.😦

I have 85 healer (T13 geared), tank (just shy of raid finder ilvl geared), and dps (T12-ish geared) on Azuremyst though, so don’t hesitate to get in touch with me.

I’d be way interested to give this a go! I’ve got an arcane Mage geared in HoT/valor gear with no ICC raid xp. Non-griefer and so not an asshat. Really just depends on the night and grinding rep with my wife.

But you shouldn’t need a full 10 to do it (maybe with the exception of Been a long time waiting for this (although that is maybe more about having the heals than anything else). We did a full clear of normal with 6 of us – 1 healer and 1.5 tanks and we’re not challenged in the slightest – and picked up most of the achievements on the way (they’d 2 manned marrowgar before the rest joined us so we didn’t get the option of trying boned). LK was the only really challenge there and that was just learning the mechanics and where not to be. I need to organise my guildies to get back in there an finish the achievements!

Oh… and something to add to your bucket list if you haven’t already done it – get yourself Fear and Vengeance on your rogue! The stealthing quests are awesome!!! I did it last night and had a blast, and was disappointed when it was over (Although I can do it again since I deliberately copied my rogue over to the beta before starting it). It is worth the 10K! My rogue has only just dinged 85 so gear for defeating the guy you have to fight isn’t a big requirement.

Here is the thing. If we’re going to do it, I’d rather bring as many people as possible to all enjoy getting the achievements together. it’s about all of us having fun together, and getting something cool that we may not have done before.

I know we could do it with fewer people… but what the heck, right? I say blow em down, gut em and have fun.

YES YES. A thousand times, yes! 6pm cst is 4pm PST, right? That’s a little tough for me, but I can squeeze it in one night a week for a few weeks. I can’t imagine it taking us that long. My guild of RL friends stomped everything up LK in an hour or so, and we can’t even down the worm guy in Blackwing Descent🙂

BBB, if there’s any sort of cross-realm, battletagnotmyrealnamewiththewholerealIDthing option, I would jump on it. I have a druid healer and tank, a shaman healer and dps, and a mage ready to go. I’ve done all of ICC normal except Sindragosa (that scaly chickenfinger).

There is, but at the moment (unless it changed and wasn’t announced) it’s for D3 only. But it’d still be a good way to get organized… If you sign into battle.net and go into the d3 section, there should be something about setting it up in there. Mine ended up being a name with #1992 on the end, even though it said I was the only one by that name. Gives you all the functionality of real id, without your real name, and is how it should have been set up from the beginning.

Long time reader and first time poster….. I have wanted to finish the achieves for ages but my guild is more interested in heroic DS right now and I can’t seem to get a group together. I have almost all the achieves but a couple and would love to help others get them. I have a feral druid and can dps or tank and I am DS geared. Time zone may be a problem but it depends on the night as I am Pacific Time.

My wife and I would be happy to help. We are both good players and usually we tank and heal as a team but sometimes she adds in hunter dps if needed.
I can use either my bear tank (Newtonium on Lightbringer) or Paladin (Protectorate on Lightbringer).
We are west coast so might not be able to fit your times (weekdays are out for us because 9pm Pacific is the earliest we could go).
Keep us in mind!

If you can get 10ish reasonably geared 85s, 25 man should be well within reach. For my part, I can bring along an LFR geared resto shaman or a DK tank. If 25s are an option, I’d much prefer to drag the DK as he’s been working on putting Shadowmourne together for quite some time.

When I get home from work today, I’ll see how many folks said they would try to go, and send them all emails seeing who could do a Wednesday at 7 to 9 central, and who could do a Sundays same time. I knew time zones would be a factor.

But, if folks were willing to do this Horde side too, I have damn near anything you’d need – resto druid, prot pally, blood or frost dk, shadow or holy priest, even a pesky rogue…

I’ve done all the fights through heroic, but have done most of the achievements… course, it’s been a LONG time since I stepped into ICC (did a quick run @ 85 with the rogue for the title about a year ago). But they’re pretty memorable fights.

If a Horde side one gets started, I’d gladly help out with it as a disc/shadow priest, and may be able to get my prot pally husband to come if it’s on the right day. Unfortunately, I do not have any Ally 85s.

I haven’t played WoW in several months while I’ve been in school, but this kind of schedule is one I can commit to. I’d also like to get interest going again before the MoP expansion. My Alliance geared toon that I know how to play well in ICC is also a DPS DK. I have a tank set that would probably work under these conditions, and have tanked through the first wing, but I’m not really comfortable with it without getting in some good practice. I was part of my guild’s core raid team (10-man), and we raided ICC twice a week and got the LK down before the Cata release. I’ll have to review the achieves I have – those, I can probably give some guidance in terms of tricks we followed to attain them. I’m comfortable with all the fights in the Citadel, and may be of some use in that regard as well. 6 PM Central will be too early for me, but it looks like you’re modifying it to 7 PM Central, which I can do. And Sunday would be completely flexible.

Guess I should add to this, I rarely went into ICC in 25-man. If we had 20ish people, we’d split into 2 groups of 10 rather than pull in strangers who hadn’t studied. It would also be nice to earn the 25-man achieves, of which I suspect I have very few. 🙂

If the nights you are planning this for are going to be either Wed or Sun then count me in. I am EST zone, but I don’t have to go to bed early on either of those nights (yay me!) and am home from work early enough in the day for it to not be a problem. I have a DK tank, healer/tank Druid or a Warlock or Hunter for dps if the tank & heal spots are full.

If, for whatever reason, this ends up not coming to fruition, feel free to add me to real ID friends anyways. I’d love to be able to say hello to my favorite blogger every now and then in real time. :o)

I would so love to do this! The start time on Wed might be a wee bit pushing it for me, as I generally walk through the door at 7 central, but I could make it work. I’ve got an arcane mage, whose gear is not the best, but I’d start working on it more to do this. Thanks so much for a great idea and opening it up to the community!

Sadly I’m EU and Horde😦. But someday I’d love to play alongside the BBB!
If anyone does want help getting any achievements – Death#2927, or for that matter if you are in US, just general chat or advice🙂
Very geared tanking druid and semi-geared healing druid, warrior tank and mage DPS.

To have the Honor of raiding with BBB and family? As a long-time reader I would love for the chance to give something back and lend a hand in pursuit of the goal. My main is a Resto Druid but I also have a Resto Shaman equally capable I could bring. Times are fine with me and either day would work as well.

I can make the Sunday ones but have a DS run at 8 central on wednesdays. I have a shadow priest, frost dk or rogue I can bring along, whichever you prefer (shadow priest probably best, a ranged-heavy group makes lk much easier. I’m happy to explain the fights if you need someone to, I’ve been running ICC most weeks since it was current content for chances at Invincible, and since they announced account-wide mounts meaning I can get more chances at it by running my alts…well, I think my record week so far was 9 ICC25’s and 7 ULD25’s completed ;p

Auugh, Bear, why must you be Alliance?! I would LOVE to come do this with you. Maybe I can grind out some levels on my DK, then faction change her… but probably not by Sunday, though.🙂 Fridays and Sundays are good for me, and I tank.

I’m always up for achieve runs whenever I can get people interested, and I know ICC (and Ulduar) very well. I am comfy leading either reaid. I’m Maeorra on Moon Guard. I don’t think battletag is functional in WoW yet, but if so, I’d be happy to give you mine so you can add me. I’ll go whenever there’s interest, and I can usually pull a few friends.